On the foreign ship.

The three girls looked at Zhao Hao with great anticipation and thought, and then they saw him take out the first medal from the box.

Not gold, not silver, and not copper.

It is pink, pink, pink...

"Wow, it's so beautiful..." The girls exclaimed in amazement. How could the hearts of young girls resist the temptation of pink gems?

"This one is awarded to Sister Qiaoqiao."

Zhao Hao then carved that medal, which was the same size as a normal medal, with blue gold filigree and inlaid with rare peach tourmaline.

The tourmaline gemstone is carved into the shape of peach petals, with a pink and transparent color. The back of the gold filigree is engraved with the seal script "white hands stirring the spoon, gulls and water rely on each other".

Over the past year or so, Qiaoqiao has learned a lot of words from Ma Xianglan and even knows how to pronounce the next line of "素手调羹".

As for 'Guo Shui Xiang Zui', I hate it!

Her little face was as red as the tourmaline medal. She covered her hot cheeks and said in a panic, "Oh, now I dare not be lazy. I have to prepare dinner quickly."

After saying that, he snatched the medal and fled.

Master Zhao withdrew his hand with regret as he was unable to let her put it on her chest with his own hands.

In fact, "gulls and water depend on each other" is just a metaphor for "people cannot live without the environment they depend on for survival", it is not like what you and Miss Qiaoqiao think!

The young master is still young and as pure as a blank sheet of paper.

"Sister Ma, this is awarded to you."

Then he picked up the second medal, which was the same size as Qiaoqiao's, but was carved from sapphire in the shape of a three-petal orchid. The seal script on the back of the gold reticle read "Green hair looks at the grass, the shadow never leaves the lamp".

"Green hair" refers to black and shiny hair, which describes a young and beautiful appearance. "Looking at the grass" refers to the job of a secretary to revise the imperial edict.

Put together, it refers to the cultural understanding and spiritual connection between men and women. In layman's terms, when you say the first half of a sentence, the other person can understand the meaning of your words and can immediately continue with the second half.

As for the latter word, it means literally that shadows cannot be separated from lights. Without lights, shadows cannot be seen, which is a metaphor for the close connection between the two parties.

These are all very pure words!

But Secretary Ma, who is highly educated, can deduce seventeen layers of meaning, thirty-six pictures, and different soundtracks from these two words and eight characters, such as "red sleeves adding fragrance" and "red-faced confidant".

She gave these eight words a very high score.

Ma Xianglan was so happy that she bit her red lips lightly, her beautiful eyes flickering, and she wished that this little enemy could put it on her.

But how could she just sit there and endure it when Qiaoqiao backed out? Wouldn't that be too shameless?

Sister Ma had no choice but to snatch the medal from Zhao Hao, smiled at him seductively, and went after Qiaoqiao.

"I'll give you a hand."

"Ah, I want to go too?" He also pulled Xiao Yun'er, who wanted to watch the fun, away.

~~

There were only Zhao Hao and Jiang Xueying left on the deck, and things suddenly became quiet.

Miss Jiang stood there shyly, but she didn't dare to look Zhao Hao in the eye.

"Sister, this is awarded to you." Young Master Zhao took out the last medal from the box, a five-petal magnolia medal carved from mutton-fat white jade.

Slightly different from the two medals of Qiaoqiao and Ma Xianglan, the base of this medal is not made of gold filigree, but directly uses the bezel setting method, with pure gold inlaid with jade.

"Although gold has a price but jade is priceless, the girl's contribution is much greater than those two, so your medal is worth the gold." The values ​​of Mr. Zhao, a straight man, are frighteningly simple.

Jiang Xueying, who was originally shy, burst out laughing, thinking that this big boy was so cute.

Yes, this medal is quite expensive, but the other two are also good.

The "gold filigree" technique used on their bases requires first pulling the gold into silk threads thinner than hair, and then using secret methods to weave them into complex and exquisite three-dimensional patterns. Only in Suzhou, Nanjing and Beijing can you find craftsmen who master this unique skill.

In terms of wages, it is much better than gold and jade.

'Gold inlaid with jade' is superior in grandeur and preciousness, while 'gold filigree' is superior in delicacy and complexity. One has advantages that the other cannot match.

"Silly brother, so what if you make three of the same? Why bother so much?" Jiang Xueying looked at Zhao Hao with sympathy. She could imagine how much thought he had to put in to express the difference while taking everyone's feelings into consideration.

"That won't work. Your contributions are different. If they are all the same, wouldn't that be unfair?" Zhao Hao shook his head and said righteously:

"I can't be egalitarian. It's disrespectful to your contributions."

Jiang Xueying suddenly realized that this was what the young man wanted to express - everyone is important in his heart, but their contributions are different.

This method was used to solve the two troubling problems.

~~

Anyway, Jiang Xueying really likes this one of hers because it has a big magnolia flower on it.

Turning over the back of the medal, there were only eight seal characters, which read "Greeting wind and rain, return home together in old age."

The first word comes from Cai Yong's "The good wind and rain of the time moisten the people. The vast southern land is really due to his merits." It is a high evaluation of Miss Jiang.

The latter word means, 'Even when hair turns grey, we still share similar interests; it describes a long-lasting, everlasting friendship'... It's not what you think!

But Jiang Xueying is fully confident that it will become what you want!

She glanced around quietly and saw that there was no one else on the deck, so she mustered up her courage and handed the gold medal back to Zhao Hao, then straightened her chest slightly, closed her eyes and said in a trembling voice:

"Put it on me, so we're even."

"Good fellow..." Young Master Zhao took a breath, he didn't expect it to be like this... How could he bear this?

"Brother, hurry up..." Jiang Xueying's face felt like it was burning and her voice was about to drip water.

"Oh, oh." Young Master Zhao let out a breath and calmed his pounding heart. Then he stretched out his trembling hands like an eighty-year-old man, and fiddled with it for a long time before he helped her pin the white jade medal on her chest.

~~

Meanwhile, Mr. Zhao also finished his inspection and went back home.

Sitting comfortably in his signing room, he drank tea and asked questions of He Wenwei and Wu Chengen, who were in charge of awarding honors and registration.

"Have you distributed all the medals that should be distributed? Don't miss any that are wrong, that would be too hurtful."

"My lord." Upon hearing this, He Wenwei awkwardly placed a silver medal on Zhao Shouzheng's desk.

"It seems like I missed one..."

"What do you mean by as if?!" Although Master Zhao relied more and more on his deputy, he just couldn't change his habit of glaring at him.

"Isn't this a leak?"

"Don't be angry, Mr. Dong," Wu Cheng'en said a fair word for He Wenwei. "I can't find this person in the merit book. I really don't know where the mistake is."

"Isn't it in the merit book?" Zhao Shouzheng picked up the silver medal and saw the words "Dedicated to the Nameless Hero" engraved on the back.

“It’s quite unique…”

"Who is this for?" The three people in the signing room were deeply confused.

"Master, maybe, probably, it's for me." A weak voice came from the shadows.

"Oh!" Master Zhao slapped his forehead, he actually forgot about his own servant.

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